![]() Like most of the comedies geared toward men in the last 20 years, George Washington is an overgrown man-child who must step up and fight the tyrannical British with the help of his friends. However, the goofy anachronisms and hyper-masculine jokes start to wear and by the time the title card hits, America: The Motion Picture turns into quite the slog. ![]() The film takes giddy delight in presenting the history of American Independence with all the details skewed and context being flat-out wrong, which is evident from the silly opening that finds politically minded Abraham Lincoln (Will Forte) murdered by a werewolf Benedict Arnold (Andy Samberg) in front of his hard-partying best friend, George Washington (Channing Tatum). Using a tone similar to Archer, but without the clever quips and genre takedowns, America may have worked as a silly short YouTube video or a half-hour pilot, but stretched to feature length it is grating and far too self-satisfied with its own crass toilet humor. If these outraged, analphabetic reactionaries had it their way, we’d likely be teaching America: The Motion Picture as 100 percent fact in every red state public school across the country.įrom executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and director Matt Thompson ( Archer), America: The Motion Picture is a gory, loud, and exceedingly stupid animated comedy that stretches the one-note joke of “what if the Founding Fathers were dude-bros?” into a numbing 98 minutes. Ignorant, enraged, and overwhelmingly white parents are shaking in their boots at the thought that their children may learn some hard truths about American history-that our nation was not always the moral, perpetual Good Guy badass that we present ourselves as. ![]() In the United States, what we teach as history and historical accuracy is somehow a hot button issue right now.
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